Two Sunway University College Australian Matriculation (AUSMAT) students shined as they were awarded Certificates of Distinction by the Curriculum Council, Western Australia recently. AUSMAT is the Year 12 curriculum of Western Australia. Manisharaj Kaur Pannu was awarded the Certificate of Distinction for Chemistry with a scaled score of 100 and Sudharsan Thiruvengadam received the Certificate of Distinction for English (Advanced Paper). Manisharaj and Sudharsan were among those who had the highest scores for their subjects in the whole state of Western Australia. Manisharaj was the top student in AUSMAT at Sunway based on her results.
Manisharaj (left) with Mrs Ruma Lopes
Gail Taylor (left) with Sudharsan
Manisharaj will be pursuing Law and Commerce at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Sudharsan will be studying Aerospace Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia.
Gail Taylor, Consultant Principal, Curriculum Council who attended the AUSMAT awards night at Sunway earlier said “It was good to see Sunway’s students receive Certificates of Distinction based on their exam results, in Chemistry and English. Well done! It is such a marvellous accolade to Sunway’s AUSMAT programme and its lecturers”.
A good number of students qualified to enter medicine in universities such as Monash, IMU, Penang Medical College, Melaka Manipal Medical College and also in universities elsewhere.
Mrs Ruma Lopes, Director of the AUSMAT at Sunway said “More students this year have been able to move on to tertiary studies of their choice. Students are also becoming very diverse in their interest. Top students have also decided to study philosophy and science together as well as in less common specialisations such as English studies and actuarial science”.
